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what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago? (lemmy.eco.br)

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Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.

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[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 1 year ago

There is an important distinction of being "convicted" and "proven guilty" though. You can get off a conviction through multiple means, one being a mistrial and so on. I think there is no two ways about this after reading:

A judge has now clarified that this is basically a legal distinction without a real-world difference. He says that what the jury found Trump did was in fact rape, as commonly understood.

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